Reverend Thomas J. Gardner, a 2002 graduate of Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote, was recently appointed Pastor at Saint Malachy Parish in Philadelphia.
In 2023, Fr. Gardner was appointed both Parochial Administrator at Saint Malachy Parish in Philadelphia and Newman Chaplain at Temple University. He will continue as Temple’s Newman Chaplain and was ordained in 2010.
In related news, Tim Lawn, a 1980 McDevitt grad, has been ranked for the sixth straight year one of Super Lawyers’s top 10 attorneys in Pennsylvania.
According to superlawyers.com, Lawn has secured multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for Pennsylvania clients injured or killed by medical malpractice, defective products, motor vehicle accidents, and workplace injuries. His verdict of $40.2 million on a medical malpractice case is believed to be the largest personal injury verdict ever awarded by a jury in Delaware County.
From Lawn’s profile:
Mr. Lawn has repeatedly been voted by lawyers to be one of the Top 100 SuperLawyers in Pennsylvania. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America every year since 2010. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, two organizations whose limited membership is by invitation only. Tim recently served as President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Recognized as an excellent teacher of courtroom advocacy skills, Tim spent 10 years teaching advanced trial advocacy at Beasley Law School of Temple University, and he is frequently asked to give seminars and presentations for other lawyers, including providing updates on Civil Law and Medical Malpractice to trial judges from across the Commonwealth at Pennsylvania State Conference of Trial Judges.
Tim serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Dave Palmer Memorial Foundation, a tax-exempt public charity that he founded in 1992. Since its inception, the Foundation has provided close to a half million dollars of financial assistance to children who have lost a parent to an untimely death. Tim also is a member of the Board of Directors of Frankie’s World Foundation, a daycare provider for children with medical needs in North Philadelphia.
Lawn is a graduate of Spring Garden College and The Delaware Law School of Widener University.
He was inducted into the Bishop McDevitt High School Alumni Hall of Fame in 2008.
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